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"GABLE is a one-person play about the life and times of Clark Gable. ""...we actually forget our surroundings and believe we're listening to Gable's life story."" -- News Enterprise.For nearly thirty years, Clark Gable was ""the King"" of Hollywood. Female fans swooned, male admirers were made envious of his unaffected masculinity. Through jaunty, self-assured performances in films like IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, SAN FRANCISCO, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and GONE WITH THE WIND, he carved a niche for himself as the quintessential American movie star.The play is set on the Nevada location of Gable's last picture, THE MISFITS. While waiting for his perennially tardy co-star Marilyn Monroe to arrive on the set, Gable reminisces about his Horatio Alger life and career, touching on his stormy relationship with his oil wildcatter father, his marriages to older women, his numerous affairs and his great love, wife Carole Lombard, who died in a 1942 plane crash...a tragedy from which Gable never recovered.""Insightful"", ""funny"", and ""racy"" are words that audiences have used to describe Michael B. Druxman's GABLE.A one-woman play in two-acts about the life and times of Carole Lombard. ""LOMBARD is an engrossing one-woman show...Druxman's writing is crisp and informative, his direction spry."" -- Glendale News-Press. This study of Hollywood's favorite ""screwball"" comedienne begins on the eve of her death. Following a successful war bonds tour, she awaits word in an Indianapolis hotel room to see if she's been successful in securing plane reservations for a flight back to Los Angeles. She's anxious to get home, because she suspects that her husband, Clark Gable, is cheating on her. Drawing liberally upon her legendary sailor's vocabulary, Ms. Lombard talks about her tragic affair with singer Russ Columbo, ex-husband William Powell, as well as George Raft, Gary Cooper, Joseph P. Kennedy and, of course, David O. Selznick and her ill-fated attempt to secure the role of Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND. Michael B. Druxman's LOMBARD is not a depressing play of approaching doom. It is a warm, funny story of a woman -- the highest paid film actress of her day -- who was a ""fighter,"" both in her career and personal life."

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